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Internationalisation is currently very much in the news.
This article reports on a CETL-funded project that explored some issues of
engagement for international students.…Issues emerging include some
particularly relevant to art and design education such as the privileging of
ambiguity, group work and explorations of personal identity. The article
suggests some strategies including Holliday’s ‘small culture approach’
(Holliday, 1999).

The HEA/JISC OER workshop and seminars series has the
following aims: to enable institutions to disseminate findings from
discipline-specific OER projects and/or practice, or evidence-informed policy;
to facilitate the sharing of policy, practice and evidence, within and across
disciplines; to promote critical discussion in relation to the release, use and
reuse of OER in relation to all academic disciplines.

This SEDA Summer School is intended for colleagues, whether
new or experienced in academic development, who see as part of their role
helping their institution to increase and enhance the appropriate use of
digital technologies. The Summer School is not primarily about the technologies
themselves. Rather it is about the good and critical uses of digital
technologies in academic development to support the increasingly digital
University.

NB JISC is offering 12 scholarship places for the SEDA
Summer School. Each will pay £400 towards the cost of attending the event (full
price £795). These scholarships are open to members of any institution normally
eligible to receive JISC funding. The
deadline for scholarship applications is 30 April.
For further information please contact office@seda.ac.uk or Paul Bailey p.bailey@jisc.ac.uk

The Internationalisation Change Programme is a new programme
from the Higher Education Academy that has been designed to help institutions
develop a culture of internationalisation at all levels of practice. The focus of
the programme is on enhancing the quality of learning and teaching experiences
for all students, both home and international. For more information

The NUS Student Experience Report has been published; it
provides a real insight into the student learning and teaching experience. The
NUS worked with the QAA to produce this research and they hope that it will be
used by students’ unions, institutions and government to drive changes and
improvements in higher education.

The popular publication has been revised with the practitioner in mind. It will
be particularly useful for those teaching in the classroom and those engaging
with policy and student interactions in other ways, such as careers guidance
and learning development workers.
The guide includes case studies of learning and teaching that support the
development of student employability, whether in the classroom, through
distance and part-time learning, or through extra-curricular activities. There
is also a focus on the curriculum and learning and teaching practice.For more information

Thursday, 15 March 2012

There have been two decades of vigorous interest in British
art history, but up to now this has tended to assume a more or less
unproblematic category of national identity and has not enquired closely into
the elusive idea of ‘Britishness’. More recently, the concept of the
transnational has proved to be a productive way for art historians in the 21st
century to reflect not only on contemporary art, but also that of previous
centuries. This graduate conference will address the extent to which these two
approaches overlap in British art between 1851 and 1960, not only in terms of
British artists working abroad and non-British artists adopting Britain as a
base, but also in less tangible or previously unconsidered ways.

The organisers are inviting scholars, whose research is
grounded in socio-spatial analysis and/or aims at meeting the daunting
challenge of ubiquity in art history, to join the conversation and offer their
perspectives. They welcome papers that explore the connection between the
national and transnational in a global perspective for any object, period, and
place in the history of arts and letters.

Shift/Work is an exchange between the School of Art,
University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop that develops and
shares open educational resources for artists and art educators. The purpose of
this workshop is to enable its participants to develop their own models of
collaborative practice-based learning.

Developing new sites in which art can be produced and
expanding the ways in which production is supported are central to learning how
to practice as an artist. To facilitate this, art education conventionally
combines ‘structured’ historical and theoretical scholarship with ‘open’
practice-based learning agreements. This incoherent approach perpetuates the
legacy of Romanticism, producing ‘autonomous’ auteurs rather than
artist-learners. This does not prepare artists to participate in today’s
artworld, a horizontally integrated network that is highly dependent upon
reciprocal altruism.

Re-imagining the learning environment is key to facilitating
the kinds of knowledge that artists now require. Developing an iterative
action-based approach to artistic learning that is at once theoretical and
practical is imperative.

Shift/Work aims to examine and reconfigure ways in which we
can facilitate comprehensive workshop-based approaches to artistic production
that are theoretically informed, practical and participatory. Shift/Work will
facilitate new experiential knowledge, practices and tools for artists and art
educators to adapt and implement.

The workshop will be hosted in three studios in the School
of Art, Edinburgh College of Art. It will accommodate up to 30 participants,
two speakers and their facilitators. It will consist of a two and a half hour
morning session and a two hour afternoon session.

The workshop will begin with two presentations – one by
Neil Cummings and one by Dave Rushton – followed by two break-out sessions. A
rota-based approach to curriculum design will focus attention on the workshop
as a convivial means of knowledge production and distribution. Learning and
exchange will be developed through ‘on-the-job training’, engaging the
participants in a collective approach to learning.

Attendees will require some experience of art education,
either as a student or as an educator, as prior knowledge will be form a key
component of the heuristic process.

The event will be simultaneously recorded and streamed live
on Bambuser to enable wider access.

The presentations and feedback sessions of the event will be
transcribed, edited and published in 2012 as part of a Shift/Work publication
being produced by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

Shift/Work is supported by the HEA Discipline Workshop and Seminar Series 2011-12.

They are interested in the views of both staff and students,
so please circulate as widely as possible.

The survey is completed anonymously. For staff it takes no
more than 10-15 minutes to complete, with the student section possible to
complete in 5 minutes. All staff and students on undergraduate and postgraduate
journalism courses are encouraged to partake and they welcome your
participation.

The research is funded by the Association for Journalism Education,
and is intended to map and share the experiences and best practice of all
immediate stakeholders in use of news websites.

Survey results will form part of a larger study entitled Strategies for use of news websites in journalism education.
Findings from this research project will be made available online and as
contributions to relevant scholarly journals.

Research on Teaching and Learning: Integrating Practices Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada 24 - 27 October 2012 Deadline for submissions has been
extended to: 25 March 2012 The 9th Annual Conference of the International Society
for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). International scholars
and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how their
collective efforts will transform the future of higher education. http://issotl12.com/call-for-proposals/

Monday, 12 March 2012

This is the
first workshop in the Writing in Creative Practice Series, which is run in
conjunction with Writing PAD and funded by the Higher Education Academy.

This workshop will look at how academic practice that seems to
be hidden to students’ understanding of the term ‘research’ can be highlighted
through a variety of learning and teaching activities. The author of Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking
a Line for a Write, Pat Francis, will lead part of the day in which exploratory
writing will be tried, as well as collage and other making activities in order
to visualise research activities such as questioning the provenance of a text.

Conceived as a hands-on day with lots of activities and
discussion, Sarah Williamson will introduce the participants to the making of
individual artists’ books in order to capture the impressions of individual
participants in a creative and visual way – and let them experience the
suggested strategies rather than just hearing about them.

Pictures of works in progress and other participant
reactions to the theme will be submitted as a photo essay to the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

The attendance of this workshop is free of charge to all
those interested in the workshop topic, with preference being given to staff
working in HE institutions and HE in FE colleges from across the UK. Places
will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Lunch and refreshments
will be provided, but travel expenses will not be covered.